Phonograph for dolls or other toys.



H. RINGEL. PHONOGRAPH FOR DOLLS OR OTHER TOYS.

APPLICATION FILED APR.2. I9I3.

WIT/M8858.

ihad to U N itTE STA HERMAN RINGEL, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

Specification of Letters Patent.-

PEINOGRAPH FOR DOLLS OR OTHER TOYS.

Patented May 30, 1916.

Application filed April 2, 1913. Serial No. 758,304.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I. HERMAN RINGEL, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Phonographs for Dolls or other Toys, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, such aswill enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make, con struct, and use the same, reference bemg the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, form ing a part of this specification.

My invention relates more especially to phonographs designed to beplaced in dolls or other toys, whereh they can be con struoted in a manner so simple and inexpensive, as to be adapted to almost universal use in the production of articulate sounds, and especially short sentences or phrases of everyday speech.

The object I have in view is to produce a simple, inexpensive and elhcient construction, and my invention consists in the various novel devices and combinations as hereinafter explained and pointed out by the claims.

Another object is to provide means for readily removing the record from the ma chine.

Another object of my invention is to pro vide means to return the record back to the position of starting, and at the same time, disengaging the feed screw from the feed nut.

In the accompanying drawings, Figurev 1 represents a front elevation of my 1mraved phonograph. lg. 2 represents a plan view of the same. Fig. 3 represents a transverse section taken on lines w-w of Fig. 1, looking in the direction indicated by the arrows. Fig. 4 represents in partial sectioi' a side elevation of my improved phonograph taken on lines aa of Fig. 2, looking in. the direction indicated by the arrows, the phonograph being shown in position in a dotted view of a doll; and Fig. 5 represents 1; in View the split-nut used in connection with mv improved phonograph.

Similar il iillfii'als of reference refer to like parts throughout the specification and drawings.

In the drawings, 1 represents a metal strap bent to r ctangular supporting frame, to one side of which is secured a strap 2, with a tubular extension 3 for the reception of the horn 4 and reproducer 5. The top of the rectangular supporting frame 1 at its front end is slotted, as at 6, and the bottom thereof, at its rear or opposite end, is slotted as at 7, the said slots providing means for the removal of the operating shaft and sound record, which will be more fully hereinafter described.

A supporting frame 8 extends across between the side piece of the frame 1, both ends of which set against centering points 9. This supporting frame is provided with a centrally-arranged tubular extension 10, through which pinion 1] passes. This pinion iOl'lllS a part of the screwy-threaded operating shaft 12, one end of which passes through the split-nut 13, which is secured to the under side of the rectangular supporting frame 1 in any convenient manner, preferably by means of screws 14.

Upon the screw-threaded operating shaft 12 is mounted a mandrel 15, provided with an interiorly-arranged bearing 16, which when the mandrel is in the position indi cated in Fig. 1, bears against the tubular extension 10 of the supporting bracket 8. The mandrel carries the sound record 17. The mandrel 15 being fast to the screwthreaded operating shaft 12, and held thereon by the interiorly-arranged bearing 16, the outer end of which is supported upon the circularly-arranged tubular extension 10 of the pivotally arranged supporting bracket 8, and through which the pinion 11 of the operating shaft 12 passes, it will be seen that the operating shaft is supported in a vertical position, the upper screwthreaded end of which passes through and engages with the split-nut 13, which is secured to the under side of the supporting bracket 1. I

18 represents a shaft, one end" of which is secured in the lower portion of the sup porting frame 1, and the other end of which is secured in a supplemental frame 19.

20 represents a gear wheel secured to the shaft 18 and which meshes with the pinion 11, and which derives its motion from the bevel gears 21 and 22, the bevel gear 22 being driven from a shaft 23, upon which is mounted a gear wheel 24, which meshes with a gear wheel 25 secured to the spring motor 26. The motor 26 is mounted upon the operating shaft 27.

A stud 28 extends across between the side pieces of the frame 1, and the supplemental frame 19, which carries a gear wheel 29,.

record to the position of starting and at cated by the same time, disengaging the feed screw 1'2 from the feed nut 13, consists essentially of a loosely mounted sliding bar 31. mounted in the upper portion of the supporting frame 1, said sliding bar 31 being supported in a bushing 32 secured to said frame, the upper end of the bar being provided with a rectangular extension 33 at one side,

and the other side being provided with a slot 34, to be hereinafter described. This sliding bar is provided with a rounded edge 35 designed to engage with a beveled projection 36 formed integral with one member of the split-nut 37. d

From an inspection of Fig. 2 of the drawings, it will be seen that the position of the sliding bar 31 is such as to tend to keep the members 37 and 38 of the split-nut together. A spiral spring 39, one end of which is secured to the member 38 of the sp1it-nut bv means of a stud 40, and the other end of said spring 39 being secured in any convenient manner to one of the longitudinal sides of the frame 1, tends to open the splitnut, so that the operating shaft 12 becomes disengaged therefrom, when the rounded surface 35 of the sliding bar 31 engages with the beveled. surface 36 of the member 37 of the split-nut 13. This takes place when the mandrel 15 assumes the position indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 1, in which case the sliding bar will have been moved up sufficiently for the rounded surface of the sliding bar to engage surface 36 of the nut member 37, thereby permitting the spring 39 to exert its force in separating the members 37 and 38 to permit the mandrel to drop back upon the extension 10 of the frame 8 and assume its original position of starting.

To provide for the'removal of the sound record 17, from the feed nut 13 and the supporting frame 1, I pivot a lever 41 to the side of the supporting frame 1 at 42, said lever having pivoted at its upper end a lever 43, which passes through the slot 34 of the sliding bar 31, and is provided with a beveled extension 44, so that when the lever 43'is moved in the direction indithe arrow, said beveled extension will engage with the upper edge of the slot 34, thereby raising the sliding bar 31 sufficiently to cause the'split feed-nut 13 to open and to permit the feed nut to be disengaged from the feed screw, so that the feed screw can be swung out of the slot 6 in the top with the beveled of the supporting frame 1, in the direction indicated by the arrow. A cap 53 secured to the upper end of the operating shaft 12 is designed to have engagement with the rectangular extension 33 formed on the sliding bar 31, so that when the record is brought back to the position of starting, said cap 53 will contact with the said extension 33 in order to facilitate the return of the sliding bar 31 to its normal position, as indicated in Fig. 1 of the drawings.

The levers 41 and 43 are operated by means of the lever 45, which is pivoted at 46 to the under side of the supporting frame 1, as clearly indicated in Fig. 3 of the drawings. The end of the lever 45 is connected to the end of the lever 41 by means of a short link 47. The concaved end of the loosely mounted sliding bar 48, provided with a stud 49, which engages with the slot 50 in the lever 45, is moved in and out of engagement with the pinion 1-1 of the operating shaft, at the same time that the sliding bar 31 is raised, thereby permitting the operating shaft to be swung around on the supporting frame 8 and out of engagement with the frame.

Shifting the sliding bar 48 in the manner described, enables the pinion 11 to be swungout of the slot 7 in the lower portion of the supporting frame 1, in the direction indicated by the arrow. The member 38 of the split-nut is provided with a pin 51, which engages with a slot 52 in the member 37, in order to give the desired movement to the two members of the split feed-nut 13.

A nut 54 having screw-threaded engagement with the member 38 of the split-nut 13 enga es with the member 37 of the splitnut, in order to properly adjust said members.

The construction of the phonograph described in this specification, was devised for use in adoll or other image; but, as will be readily understood, the same apparatus may be used in a box or case of any form desired, and many variations in the specific form and construction of the several parts may be made without departing from the spirit of the invention.

I claim:

1. In a phonograph, the combination with a supporting frame, of a vertically moving operating shaft, a record mandrel rigidly secured to said shaft and rotating therewith,

a stationary split feed-nut located in the V supporting frame for advancing the operating shaft, and means cooperating with the feed nut slidably mounted in the upper end of the supporting frame adaptedto be acted upon by the side of the mandrel to permit the disengagement of the operating shaft from the split feed-nut while the record is being brought back to the position of start ing.

from the split feed-nut while the record is being brought back to the position of startmg.

3. In a phonograph, the combination with a supportmg frame, of a vertically moving operating shaft, a record mandrel rigidly secured to said shaft and rotating therewith, a stationary split feed-nut located in the supporting frame for advancing the operating shaft, and means cooperating with the feed-nut slidably mounted in the upper end of the supporting frame adapted to be acted upon by the side of the mandrel to permit the disengagement of the operating shaft from the split feed-nut while the rec- 0rd is being brought back to the position of starting andmeans pivotally secured to the supporting frame for permitting the feed nut to be disengaged from the operating shaft, so that said shaft can be swung out.

of the supporting frame, said means having a supporting frame, of a split feed-nut provided with a beveled extension located in one side of said supporting frame, a vertically moving operating shaft, a record mandrel rigidly secured to said shaft and rotating therewith, means slidablyvmounted in the upper end of the supporting frame adapted to be acted upon by the side of the mandrel, and also adapted to act upon the beveled extension of said feed-nut to permit the disengagement of the operating shaft from the split feed-nut while the record is being brought back to the position of starting and means pivotally secured to the supporting frame for permitting the feed nut to be disengaged from the operating shaft, so that said shaft can be swung out of the supporting frame, said means having engagement with the said slidable means mounted in the upper end of the supporting frame and with the lower end of the operating shaft.

This specification signed and witnessed this first day of April, 1913.

HERMAN RING'EL. Witnesses:

FREDK C. FISCHER,

CLIFFORD A. ALLISTON. 

